Under the plan EU governments agreed, websites would still have to ask before putting most cookies on a phone or computer, but not for six specific jobs, such as keeping items in a shopping basket, counting visitors or checking how an ad matched to the page performed. Each job has strict limits: the data cannot be used for anything else, and measurement of ads cannot look at what a person did on other sites or on earlier visits. The list is not law yet, because the European Parliament still has to agree its own version and negotiate with governments.
Of course, a change made to make advertisers happy.
I am ok with cookies set by a specific site for the site functionality - no need to ask for permisdions here. But advertisers should not be allowed to send me any cookies by default and gather aby data. Ads should work like they did in old newspapers: no spying on customers and no personalization at all. All you have to work with is your knowledge about the general public of the medium.
What is ppc.land?
All of these articles are written by a single author named Luis Rijo, who writes dozens of articles a day. Is this a real person?
According to the site’s FAQ and about pages, the articles are AI output
No idea, posting as found.
EU presser on the same: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2026/10/21/digital-rulebook-council-agrees-position-to-simplify-data-protection-privacy-and-cyber-reporting-rules/
Finally. I can remove that annoying cookie button from my website, that use cookies just for user analytics, that are selfhosted on my server. It was such annoying nonsense.
How is it nonsense to ask users for permission to put stuff on their pc
Stuff on their pc? You mean stupid cookie? At the moment you have to click on the cookie banner on every single website. It’s just pain in the ass for any user. I don’t think people actually write the whole text describing what the cookies are for. I personally have a plugin in my FF to automatically dismiss all of this crap.
At the moment you have to click on the cookie banner on every single website. It’s just pain in the ass for any user.
You don’t have to click those banners because they are neccessary but because the sites intentionally show them to you again and again and again as propaganda against data protection.
Edit: case in point… when you open lemmy.world to type your comment your browser gets checked by Cloudflare and then a cookie gets placed to mark you as having passed the check. They could theoretically also use this cookie to analyse user behavior by logging how often and when you visit the site, how many topics you open up to read per visit and so on… All without needing to show you a cookie banner as they are simply not using private data that can be used to identify you.
Especially since sites actually respecting users’ privacy don’t even have to nag users for permission.
If your “analytics” did not include collecting personal data that can used to identify them, you never needed that banner in the first place.
